UNSC struggles with Gaza truce vote delays, Israel orders mass evacuations
Al Jazeera
Palestinians await long-delayed UN Security Council vote on aid delivery as death toll in besieged Gaza exceeds 20,000.
The United Nations Security Council is due to vote on a pause in hostilities in the Israel-Palestinian conflict and aid delivery to the Gaza Strip after several failed attempts to agree on the language of the resolution, as Israel ordered the evacuation of a swathe of the besieged enclave’s south.
Members of the UNSC remain engaged in high-level diplomacy in hopes of avoiding another United States veto of a new UN resolution on the delivery of desperately needed aid to Gaza, where Palestinian authorities have said the death toll in Israel’s war against Hamas has exceeded 20,000 people.
The vote, delayed three times, is now expected on Thursday, said Ecuador’s UN Ambassador Jose Javier De la Gasca Lopez-Dominguez, the current UNSC president.
“Just within the past three days, there have been seven different delays or postponements in this UN Security Council vote on humanitarian aid getting into Gaza,” said Al Jazeera’s Gabriel Elizondo, reporting from the UN headquarters in New York on Wednesday.
“The main sticking point, we believe, is the language in the draft about a monitoring mechanism being implemented. Essentially, it would be the United Nations that takes the lead in overseeing and facilitating aid entering Gaza and then its distribution to the people who need it the most,” he said.
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